Path of needles / Alison Littlewood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Littlewood, Alison, author.

Contributor:

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serial murder investigation--Fiction.

Serial murder investigation.

Folklore--Study and teaching (Higher).

Folklore.

Folklore--Study and teaching (Higher)--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Physical Description:

376 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus, 2014.

Summary:

Alice Hyland is an expert on fairy tales--lecturing on the well-known stories and their lesser-known variants--and the natural choice for Police Constable Cate Corbin to consult when a dead girl is found in the woods dressed up as Snow White. Especially when the girl's grieving mother receives a parcel containing a glass bottle of blood stoppered with the dead girl's toe. Cate's boss, Detective Superintendent Heath, isn't convinced of the connection to folklore until a second girl is found, this time dressed as Red Riding Hood and with claw marks gouged into her flesh, like a wolf had been at her. As she dives deeper into the case, Alice beings to sense a supernatural pull connecting her to the murders. A series of uncanny events seem to be pointing her in the right direction, but she's not the only one noticing; By the time a third girl is found in the local castle, Heath begins to wonder if their fairy tale expert knows too much, and Alice finds herself no longer an asset, but a suspect. But she can't stop following the clues, and her determination to solve the mystery herself and prove her innocence may lead her somewhere she can't return from.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1623658551

9781623658557

OCLC:

870663466